Lumber, Cut & Dried? Wood-Like Recycled Newspaper Logs

By dornob

Upcycling cut, colored, pressed and printed newspapers back into lumber sounds like an impossible magic trick. That, however, is precisely the improbable goal of this curious reuse project – to transform used paper-pulp pages into new building-block logs.

This is not the first project to propose reusing newspaper material in a new and structural way. However, it does bridge a large and long-standing gap between the textures we associated with wood and the strikingly different visual pattern of conventional newsprint. Even outside of the overall look, the process is surprisingly similar too: a log is sliced, diced, set up on wooden separators and left to cure just like traditional trees would be.